Video: “Iron Man,” the extended trailer

posted at 11:44 am on February 29, 2008 by Allahpundit

An early bootleg circulated last summer. Here’s the new one, in which we’re asked yet again to accept Robert Downey Jr. as the savior of mankind. The more I watch, the better I like him: Have we ever had a sardonic superhero? They’re usually either earnest (Christopher Reeve) or brooding (Keaton and Christian Bale), and either way just sort of … flat. Clooney was kind of sardonic but he’s too much the leading man to pull off the winking, “I can’t believe they cast me either” vibe Downey’s projecting here. It’s as if they gave super powers to Chandler from “Friends.” Can’t. Wait.

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Looks tasty. However, the line about “I want to protect the people I put in harms way” does scare me a bit. I pray this will not have a liberal bent with the evil defense contractors or military industrial complex being the big villian. You know, as I type this I am beginning to think it will.

I must be the only person that find this humorous. You know, we live in a different world, because a movie is coming out, and Black Sabbath is in the soundtrack. I mean, those guys were considered the bane of society in the 1970′s.

Looks just awesome. I loved Iron Man comics as a kid, and always wanted a movie done. The technology wasn’t available to do it right until now.
Marvel Comics has several more of our favorite superheroes on the drawing board for movies now, including Thor, The Avengers and several others.

I pray this will not have a liberal bent with the evil defense contractors or military industrial complex being the big villian.

It will.

Anyone that goes to see the Iron Man movie thinking that because of this 3 minute trailer Tony Stark will be the witty rich Republican playboy asskicking genius with a cybernetically-enhanced heart of gold is a drooling retard.

Republicans do not fund movie production in Hollywood. End of story. And as long as heartland Republicans keep buying movie tickets, pay-per-view showings on cable/satellite TV, DVDs, et cetera of these Hollywood movies that insult our intellect, morals, and values (often justifying their movie purchase with a dismissive “oh, yeah I know it’s kinda liberal but, you know, it’s just entertainment”), then nothing will ever change.

The bad guy is the Mandarin (mr. keffiyah) and Obadiah Stone (the weapons contractor who breaks from Stark’s company) who becomes the Ironmonger, big robot looking guy.

This movie will be no more un-American than Batman Begins, its virtually an identical story with a virtually identical character.

Billionaire playboy gets captured by terrorists, kills terrorists and escapes losing a friend in the process, returns home seeing the error of his ways, then uses his enormous wealth and military research projects to fight corruption in his own company as well as more terrorists.

The “I want to protect the people I put in harm’s way” line seems to me more like he wants to do more to personally get involved on the “good guys” side, not that there’s some mishmash equivocating going on.

In the Marvel Civil war Captain America went underground and fought against Stark, who was backing the US government in its pogram to register and control super heroes. Ironman felt that the superheros should be a controlled asset, and Capt America figured that Heroes were Americans, and should be free.
Sounds geeeky I know, but hearing about the Civil war is what got me interested in comics again.
Back on topic, I have been looking forward to this movie for a while, especially since I sawe him using flame throwers agains the Mujadeen.

When it comes to comics and comic book movies, can we please stop with the american/unamerican routine? I dont see how Batman Begins is unamerican. The only exception to this is the GIJOE project, which I think is beyond idiotic.

Sounds geeeky I know, but hearing about the Civil war is what got me interested in comics again.
Back on topic, I have been looking forward to this movie for a while, especially since I sawe him using flame throwers agains the Mujadeen.

Im back to buying comics with the new “Skrull Invasion” storyline. It is todays take on the WOT

I thought Batman Begins was great–until the line changed from “your parents died because your father failed to protect himelf” to “your parents died because my super-conspiracy took all the money out of Gotham, and poverty automatically removes ethical consideration.”

This movie, however, is going to be crap. I don’t care if you’re a superhero or not; members of the U. S. Armed Forces have voluntarily signed contracts to put themselves in harm’s way to keep YOU safe. Anyone who wants to “protect the military” does not deserve my movie ticket. And it just sets the very predictable tone for the rest of the film.

I heard about the civil war thing. Completely stupid – don’t kill Captain America! Haven’t read it, so maybe it’s great writing or the comic-book answer to Tolstoy, but it just seems odd to kill a superhero, to me.

I don’t know how much of the anti-American left is present in this movie – but from someone above there’s a bad guy, and he wears a khaffiyah. How bad could it be?

Well any movie with Nick Fury has to start Samuel Jackson since he has the rights with the “Ultimate” character. I dont think we will see an Avengers movie. Justice League would be awesome and that project is pretty much canceled. But I do believe we will see more tie-ins. The new Hulk and Punisher movies will undo the abominations of the previous films.

I’m so pumped for this. JVelez, the JLA movie is on a go ahead again, it’s moving fast evidently and will be out in 09, though I can hardly believe it myself. And supposedly Sam Jackson does make a appearance in Iron man as fury.

May 2nd can’t come fast enough. Just that little snippet is making me jones to see it.

I now know what I’m going to spend my Incentive Check on when it comes in.

I enjoyed Christian Bale as Batman, but then, the ONLY Batman I enjoy is Frank Miller’s, who took the absolute CRAP that DC was putting out and made Batman an actual vigilante again. One who would do or say ANYTHING to get to the end he considered proper. Bale did a decent job as a Miller Batman, and I’ll see his next Batman flick.

Punisher: War Journal will come out in 09. And the 2 stills look more darker…

JVelez on February 29, 2008 at 2:16 PM

JVelez, I can only hope so. I had every Punisher comic from 1 to the low hundreds, and even though they had to reign him in to keep the Comics Rating high enough that they could still sell the comic he was a DARK, BROODING, VICIOUS “hero” that had a tragic past, a warped view of the world, and access to a whole crapload of guns.

I’m agnostic on the script, but always thought Downey was a brilliant casting choice for Tony Stark, so long as he could finish the movie on the wagon. Indeed, I always thought that they made sure to put Jim Rhodes in the script in case he had to take over from Stark, just as in the comic book.

I dont think GI joe will be as bad as people think. Alot of people trashed it because they found out that GI Joe would be fighting a “Scottish Arms Dealer” not realizing that the character Destro, one of GI Joes classic enemies, was in fact both Scottish and an arms dealer.

It’s possible they’ll hit the alcoholic angle in the sequel, but from what I read Favreau really knows what he’s doing and is playing this one as straight origin story. They could be playing up the white liberal guilt angle a little, but that’s the way it was in the first one, except it was the Viet Cong who captured Stark.
Rumor has it Samuel L Jackson is going to be Nick Fury of SHIELD in this film AND in the Hulk reboot with Ed Norton coming out. I just hope, with Thor and Captain America in development, that they have enough sense to avoid the whole Civil War fiasco, with Spidey unmasking and Iron Man demanding heroes expose their identities, with Cap leading the ‘resistance’ that ultimately got him killed.

Yes, Capt. got killed at the end of the Civil War series, but as another poster mentioned, Bucky (the original) will take up the shield. I wish I had the funds to start collecting commics again, but alas, the baby needs his diapers.